Dennis E. Showalter is a professor of history at Colorado College

Colorado College

The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell...

 who specializes in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History

Society for Military History

The Society for Military History is an United States-based international organization of scholars who research, write and teach military history of all time periods and places. It includes Naval history, air power history and studies of technology, ideas, and homefronts. It publishes the...

 from 1997 to 2001. In addition, Showalter is an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas

University of North Texas

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. Showalter has previously taught at the United States Air Force Academy

United States Air Force Academy

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, the United States Military Academy

United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City...

, and the Marine Corps University

Marine Corps University

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. He has written extensively on the wars of Frederick the Great, the German Wars of Unification, World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, and World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. Tannenberg won the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

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's Paul Birdsall Prize for best new book of 1992.

Selected works

• Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology, and the Unification of Germany. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon/Shoe String, 1975. ISBN 0-208-01505-1
• Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1914. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon, 1991. ISBN 9780208022523. Repr. Washington: Brassey's, 2004. ISBN 9781574887815
• The Wars of Frederick the Great. London/New York: Longman, 1996. ISBN 9780582062603
• The Wars of German Unification. London: Arnold, 2004. ISBN 9780340732106
• (with William J. Astore) Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism. Military Profiles. Washington: Potomac, 2005. ISBN 9781574886535
• Patton and Rommel: Men Of War in the Twentieth Century. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2005. ISBN 9780425193464

External links

• Showalter's curriculum vitae